The re-enchantment of the West : alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture.: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture. Volume 1 ([2004])
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- Title:
- The re-enchantment of the West : alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture.: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture. Volume 1 ([2004])
- Main Title:
- The re-enchantment of the West : alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture.
- Further Information:
- Note: Christopher Partridge.
- Authors:
- Partridge, Christopher H (Christopher Hugh), 1961-
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: THE DISENCHANTMENT AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Chapter 1 THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Types of Secularization; Max Weber and the Disenchantment of the World; What Secularization Is Not; Rationalization and Pluralism; Concluding Comments; Chapter 2 UNDERSTANDING NEW RELIGIONS AND ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES; Max Weber on Sectarianism and Charisma; Ernst Troeltsch on Churches, Sects and Mysticism; H. Richard Niebuhr on Sectarianism; Bryan Wilson on Sectarianism; Towards a Typology of the New Religious Life. Secularization and New Age SpiritualitiesChapter 3 THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Disenchantment as the Precursor to Re-Enchantment; Spiritual, But Not Religious: Non-Traditional Religious Vitality; De-Exotification and Contextualization; Concluding Comments; Part II: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OCCULTURE; Chapter 4 OCCULTURE; The Cultic Milieu and Mystical Religion; Occulture; The Occult; The Significance of the Self; The Priority of Experience and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion; Romanticizing the Premodern; Pagan Occulture; Concluding Comments; Chapter 5 EASTERNIZATION?; Turning East; East Meets West. The Significance of the 1893 World Parliament of ReligionsA Revolution of Consciousness: The Sacralizing Significance of the 1960s; Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions; Easternization? Problems and Proposals; Quasi-Religion, Instrumental Activism, and Syncretism; Concluding Comments; Chapter 6 POPULAR OCCULTURE:Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: THE DISENCHANTMENT AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Chapter 1 THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Types of Secularization; Max Weber and the Disenchantment of the World; What Secularization Is Not; Rationalization and Pluralism; Concluding Comments; Chapter 2 UNDERSTANDING NEW RELIGIONS AND ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES; Max Weber on Sectarianism and Charisma; Ernst Troeltsch on Churches, Sects and Mysticism; H. Richard Niebuhr on Sectarianism; Bryan Wilson on Sectarianism; Towards a Typology of the New Religious Life. Secularization and New Age SpiritualitiesChapter 3 THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST; Disenchantment as the Precursor to Re-Enchantment; Spiritual, But Not Religious: Non-Traditional Religious Vitality; De-Exotification and Contextualization; Concluding Comments; Part II: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OCCULTURE; Chapter 4 OCCULTURE; The Cultic Milieu and Mystical Religion; Occulture; The Occult; The Significance of the Self; The Priority of Experience and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion; Romanticizing the Premodern; Pagan Occulture; Concluding Comments; Chapter 5 EASTERNIZATION?; Turning East; East Meets West. The Significance of the 1893 World Parliament of ReligionsA Revolution of Consciousness: The Sacralizing Significance of the 1960s; Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions; Easternization? Problems and Proposals; Quasi-Religion, Instrumental Activism, and Syncretism; Concluding Comments; Chapter 6 POPULAR OCCULTURE: LITERATURE AND FILM; Popular Culture as Religious Text?; The Dilution Thesis; The Significance of Popular Culture; Supernatural Horror: Vampire Fiction; Cool Occulture; Popular Sacred Narratives; Concluding Comments; Chapter 7 POPULAR OCCULTURE: MUSIC; Adorno and Popular Music. The Occultural Significance of Popular MusicThe Easternization of Popular Music; Festival Culture; Psychedelic Trance Culture; Chilling Out with Ambient and Dub; The Sacred Art of Dub; Concluding Comments; CONCLUDING COMMENTS: PREDICTING RELIGION; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. … (more)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 1
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 0000-0001-0000-0000
- Publisher Details:
- London New York, NY : T&T Clark International, a Continuum imprint
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Subjects:
- 200.9182/1
Cults -- Western countries
New Age movement -- Western countries
Cults
New Age movement
Religion
RELIGION / Comparative Religion
RELIGION / Essays
RELIGION / Reference
Western countries -- Religion
Western countries
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780567108944
0567108945 - Notes:
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